stereotyping rap, .. SERIOUSLY .. Options

[jnukes]

i tried searching .. didn't come up with anything ..

SERIOUSLY .. it HECKA bothers me when people stereotype rap .. stuff that i've heard/seen


1 ]] . in class a few weeks ago, my classmates and I were talking about music .. and what our favorite genre of music was .. and i said " rap " .. and some doofus is like " rap is tha worst kind of music !!! .. it's pointless !!! all they rap about is sex, drugs, money and being tha club !!!" .. and i asked him " have you even heard of talib kweli ? " .. he said ' no ' .. and i told him he has NO idea what he's talking about , then ..


2 ]] . in p.e, we're doing badminton .. and we formed up teams, and made up our own names .. and these one group of guys we're like "OUR TEAM'S NAME IS TUPAC ! .. " and they ran around like "fo' shnazzle i like Snapple !! " , " bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes ! " .. "yo yo yo yo yo !!! " .. .. forrealz, not all rappers are like that ..

3 ]] . and people know i listen to rap .. , so like some people, when they see me, they're like " SUP GANGSTA ?? " .. or " WASSUP HOMIE ?? YO YO YO YO ! " ..

i mean .. i'm not putting anyone/thing down or anything .. i gott love for rock/punk/emo .. but it's just stupid how people think rap is all about drugs, sex, money, ect ect ..

does anyone feel me ? .. anything to say .. ?




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people really need to read this .. i just gott through reading 4 pages of " tha worst genre of music " .. w/ people disliking rap and stereotyping it ..

This post has been edited by jnukes: Jun 10 2005, 08:15 PM

[fameONE]

The truest form of musical poetry is the art of expressing thought and feeling through rhyme and rhythm with the assistance of a guided and ear-catchy beat. This, my friends, is hiphop.

Now, this is when the political aspect of it comes in. Rap/HipHop is basically split down the center as rap and hiphop. Rap being your 50 Cents, Eminems, Chingys, etc. HipHop being MosDef, Common, Talib Kweli and the like.

Within all of this, there are subgenres amongst the genre itself. Gangsta rap, east coast rap, crunk, screw, conscious hiphop, hiphop/jazz fusion, r&b/hiphop, the list goes on.

What the ignorant fail to understand is that in every genre of music, you have pure, unfiltered garbage floating on the airwaves and being broadcasted into middle class homes across the country. I guarantee you that hiphop would not have such a bad rep if the household name was "Gift of Gab" instead of "50 Cent."

HipHop clothing is obsolete. The clothing to fit the urban lifestyle is a trend that will soon be a thing of the past. Why? Turn on the newest Nelly video. He's wearing a Michael Kors button down with diamond cufflings and glasses that surely hit the 500 dollar mark. FuBu anyone?

So where does that leave us? It leaves all fans of hiphop to be left with the burden of narrowminded stereotypes and heat from such douchebags like Bill O Reilly. There's just as much hiphop out there with a positive message as there is with a negative. The media is, more or less, the primary reason why you see such atrocities like; senseless and pointless violence, irresponsible sex scenes degrading women and the free use of drugs.

Going on with the media, those (insert obscene insult) are the ones who hype up such a lifestyle, sell it to youths that aren't accustomed to it and then turn around and bash it. I hate to lay down this card, but a bunch of negroes wildin' out on TV is anything to get the conservative media's panties wet.

[Random Tidbit: Cross Canadian Ragweed is a country band that talks freely about drugs, brawls, degrading women and, for the most part, are complete racists and do you hear O Reilly grillin them? Do you hear them at all in mainstream? Not at all. But you'll hear Kenny Chesney and Garth Brooks]

Whats my point? We, as a community (hiphop), need to do what we can do to educate and hopefully it'll will trickle "up" to those in the corporate broadcast world so they'll see what hiphop really is all about.

Black Eyed Peas- June 7